Large Hadron Collider Enables Hunt For 'God' Particle To Complete 'Theory Of Everything'
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 10:21
in Physics & Chemistry
When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University of Washington scientists. UW physicists and mechanical engineers played a central role in designing and fabricating nearly 90,000 tubes that are key to the workings of the Atlas detector. Atlas is one of six particle physics experiments that are part of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.
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